A2SDi-4C-HLN4F - HDs does not spin down

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casperghst42

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Hi,

Last year I was forced to change the MB in one of my boxes to an A2SDi-4C-HLN4F, it was basically plug n' play.

The box is only used to receive backups (time machine and a copy of my borgbackup from another server), which means that there is no reason for the harddrives to spin 24/7, and with the old MB (Asus P10S-I) they would spin down after 10 minutes and save me tiny bit on the electricity bill.

That does not happen with the A2SDi-4C-HLN4F - have any one else noticed this and found a solution?

I've enabled powersave via hdparm:
$ hdparm --yes-i-know-what-i-am-doing -s 1 /dev/sdX

And I set spin down time to 10 minutes:
$ hdparm -S 120 /dev/sdX

But they happily just spin on....

Any idea?

Thanks.